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The UCSD Communication Department studies how humans, individually or institutionally, make sense of the world and act in the face of meanings others seek to impose on them, and how this sense-making activity is symbolically mediated by communication technologies.

There are 73 publications in this collection, published between 1996 and 2024. Showing 1 - 50.

Geiger, R Stuart; Tandon, Udayan; Gakhokidze, Anoolia; Song, Lian; Irani, Lilly: Making Algorithms Public: Reimagining Auditing from Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern, 2024

Turkopticon,: Managed by code: Worker problems on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, 2024

Dominguez Rubio, Fernando: The Art of Opacity, 2023

Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Benzecry, Claudio: The cultural life of objectsThe cultural life of objects, 2023

Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Baert, Patrick: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2023

Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Baert, Patrick: The Politics of Knowledge. An Introduction, 2023

Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Lezaun, Javier: Technology, legal knowledge and citizenship. On the care of Locked-in Syndrome Patients, 2023

Fattal, Alexander: The Quick: David MacDougall and Reflections on Relative Speed, 2023

Fattal, Alexander: "Reinventing Documentary" a review of The Migrant Image by TJ Demos in Public books, 2023

Irani, Lilly; Whitney, Cedric Deslandes: Broken Promises of Civic Innovation: Technological, Organizational, Fiscal, and Equity Challenges of GE Current CityIQ, 2023

Irani, Lilly: Encountering Innovation, Countering Innovation, 2023

Marín, Jefferson Jaramillo; Pardo, Érika Paola Parrado; Fattal, Alexander L: Transitar hacia la paz en Colombia. Entre la promesa y la ilusión en dos experiencias históricas (1953-2017), 2023

Metcalf, Kathryne; Irani, Lilly; del Aguila, Veronica Uribe: Contested Care: COVID-19 Surveillance and Health Data in the Workplace, 2023

Nelson, Alondra; Thompson, Charis; van Wichelen, Sonja; Rohde, Joy; Barkan, Joshua; Sims, Christo et al.: Science and the State, 2023

Sims, Christo: Living Theory Gender Play <i>and Learning to Live a Life Less Ordinary</i>, 2023

Sims, Christo; Sivakumar, Akshita: Making Sustainability ConcreteDesigns for Green Architecture in Silicon Valley, 2023

Slupska, Julia; Lowrie, Jeanette; Irani, Lilly; Stefan, Deian: How Secrecy Leads to Bad Public Technology, 2023

Fattal, Alexander L: Guests of the Guerrilla: Integrated Spectacle and Disintegrating Peace, an Ethnographic Analysis of the FARC's Tenth (and Final?) Guerrilla Conference, 2022

Sims, Christo: Green Magic: On Technologies of Enchantment at Apple's Corporate Headquarters, 2022

Sims, Christo: Learning, Technology, and the Instrumentalisation of Critique, 2022

TANAKA, STEFAN: THE OLD AND NEW OF DIGITAL HISTORY, 2022

deWaard, Andrew: Wall Street’s Content Wars: Financing Media Consolidation, 2021

Fattal, Alexander L: Review: Verde , by Federico Rios Escobar, 2021

Geiger, R Stuart; Howard, Dorothy; Irani, Lilly: The Labor of Maintaining and Scaling Free and Open-Source Software Projects, 2021

Irani, Lilly; Hussein, Mikaiil; Zschiesche, Peter; Tandon, Udayan; Arcilla, Enrique; Hickman, Louise et al.: Transportation for Smart and Equitable Cities: Integrating Taxis and Mass Transit for Access, Emissions Reduction, and Planning, 2021

Irani, Lilly: What is digital labor and how does it change us? Heteromation and other stories of computing and capitalism, 2021

Serlin, David: Guns, germs, and public history: A conversation with Jennifer Tucker, 2021

Su, Norman Makoto; Lazar, Amanda; Irani, Lilly: Critical Affects, 2021

deWaard, Andrew: Financialized Hollywood: Institutional Investment, Venture Capital, and Private Equity in the Film and Television Industry, 2020

Fattal, Alexander: Pacifista, between Vice and Virtue: Funding Digital Journalism for a “Generation of Peace” in Colombia, 2020

Irani, Lilly: Hackathons: Labor, Politics, and the Organization of Public Passions, 2020

Rubio, Fernando Domínguez; Wharton, Glenn: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Fragility, 2020

Fattal, Alexander L: The CIA in Hollywood: how the agency shapes film and television, 2019

Fattal, Alexander L: Subir las noticias al bajar del monte: El experimento de las FARC en Cuba con la televisión en línea, 2012–2016", 2019

Fattal, Alexander L: Target Intimacy, 2019

Irani, Lilly: Hackathons and the Cultivation of Platform Dependence, 2019

Tanaka, Stefan: AsiaA Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness, 2019

Fattal, Alexander L: Encyclopedia Entry —&nbsp;Counterpublic, 2018

Irani, Lilly: The good fight, 2018

Fattal, Alexander L: Book Review: Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border, 2017

Fattal, Alexander L: Uploading the News After Coming Down From the Mountain: The FARC's Experiment with Online Television in Cuba, 2012-2016, 2017

Sims, Christo: Disruptive Fixation School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism, 2017

Sims, Christo: THE POLITICS OF DESIGN, DESIGN AS POLITICS, 2017

Alex Fattal,: Participatory Realism, 2016

Booker, Angela: Ethical Commitments in Community-Based Research with Youth, 2016

Booker, Angela; Goldman, Shelley: Participatory Design Research as a Practice for Systemic Repair: Doing Hand-in-Hand Math Research with Families, 2016

Silberman, M Six; Irani, Lilly: Operating an Employer Reputation System: Lessons from Turkopticon, 2008-2015, 2016

Zilberg, Elana: Disquieting Complicities, 2016

Irani, Lilly: The cultural work of microwork, 2015

Irani, Lilly: Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers: The Case of Amazon Mechanical Turk, 2015

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